Bird Pictures Archive

Date started: 2012-08-08 16:17:27 Web page:

BirdPix curates interesting and important photos of birds. There are no particular constraints on what can and cannot be submitted, apart from needing the locality information. It is an excellent place to deposit photos of species which are out of their normal ranges. For atlasers, it can be used to keep the photos of species for which “Out of Range Forms”? (ORFs) were generated. For bird ringers, it can be used to store photos of birds in the hand which were for some reason interesting: for example, pictures showing unusual patterns of wing moult, plumage variation with age and sex, etc. Records submitted to BirdPix will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions.

BIRDPIX Metadata

1) DATASET CONTACT

Name of Organization/Department

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town

Contact person (Person to contact about the dataset)

Dr Rene Navarro

Position

Project Manager

Postal Address

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town

Postal code

7701

City/Town

Rondebosch, Cape Town

Province

Western Cape

Country

South Africa

Telephone

+27 (0)21 650 4751

Cell

Fax

+27 (0)21 650 3301

Email

rene.navarro@uct.ac.za

Website address (url)

http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix

2) DATASET METADATA

Title of dataset

Bird Pictures Archive

Brief description (max. 200 words)

BirdPix curates interesting and important photos of birds. There are no particular constraints on what can and cannot be submitted, apart from needing the locality information. It is an excellent place to deposit photos of species which are out of their normal ranges. For atlasers, it can be used to keep the photos of species for which “Out of Range Forms”? (ORFs) were generated. For bird ringers, it can be used to store photos of birds in the hand which were for some reason interesting: for example, pictures showing unusual patterns of wing moult, plumage variation with age and sex, etc. Records submitted to BirdPix will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions.

Purpose (max. 200 words)

The information consolidated within BirdPix will build up a comprehensive identification guide, as well as mapping the ranges of each species.

Begin date (When data collection started)

2012-March-13

End date for static datasets (When was data collection ended)

on-going

3) DATA QUALITY

Give a brief account of any biases, gaps or errors which may exist in the dataset.

All VM records include coordinates. Species identificatios in the VM collections are done by a panel of expert birders. Photos submitted to the virtual museum are biased to species that are easy to photograph and to areas which are most accessible to the public.

4) ACCESS/USE CONSTRAINTS

How to get a copy of the dataset

Data summaries and distributions maps are available in the project's website. For raw data requests email the contact person.

5) OTHER INFORMATION

Other information about the dataset which may be important.

BirdPix s a joint project started by the Animal Demography Unit, Biological Science, University of Cape Town

6) METADATA AUTHOR

Author name (name of the person who entered the metadata record)

Dr Rene Navarro

Author organization

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town

Author position

Information Systems Specialist

Author address

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town